Political Correctness Gone MadFreddy Woo writes: "I once worked on an animation to help highlight the issues homeless people face in winter. The client was happy with the work, then a note came back that the ethnic mix of the characters were wrong. These were cartoon characters. They weren't meant to be ethnically anything, but we were forced to make one of them brown, at the cost of about 10k to the charity. This is how your donations are spent. Wisely as you can see."
How has PC affected you? (Please add your own tales - not five-year-old news stories cut-and-pasted from other websites)
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 10:20)
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you can't say spaz any more..you can't say spaz any more but why would you want to after the spastic society changed name to Scope? Be sure to evolve your language too, and next time somebody does something a bit clumsy, makes a foolish error, accidentally says the wrong word etc., be sure to call them a "scopey".
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 23:15, 5 replies)
cheers for that.......Ricky Gervais
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 23:20, closed)
That's somewhat unfortunateI just posted an almost identical tale. Bah!
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Lazlo Woodbine Panowie!, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 23:25,
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Well you canTiger Woods was pulled up over here for for saying he played like a 'spaz'. In the US it just means buzzing and random and is not associated with the UK Spastic spazzmo version. Different meanings but maybe connected. Me I'm both.
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 23:40,
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I'm a Scopey!!In my trade in the RAF we are often referred to as 'Scopies'. I suppose I should be outraged and offended at the implication that we are 'special needs'.
However, if you had ever met any of us, you would realise how massively appropriate that term is!
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 10:10, closed)
In my class...(I'm the teacher btw) we sometimes (when I've run out of stuff to teach) play hangman. As we are currently looking at plurals we tend to play with plurals so the kids tend to choose s first.
There is one kid who, after the first s has gone on, will shout SPAZZERS. So I have to tell him off, with out laughing and his response is always 'well it could be'.
So know that spazz is alive and well amongst the 9 year olds of our nation.
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Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 23 Nov 2007, 15:25,
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